elizabeth warren was just officially sworn in as a u.s. senator yesterday. in her run for u.s. senate for massachusetts, she made herself the nation's most high profile opponent of what is second the most profitable industry in the nation, the banking industry. the only industry that is scarier than that in terms of the power and influence they throw around in washington is the most profitable industry on earth, the oil industry. and the most pugnacious confronter of that industry is now going for the other massachusetts senate seat. wow. ed markey has not just been an aggressive watchdog on the oil industry at times when there are high profile spills like the deepwater horizon spill, but also when the industry has stuff going on that does not get as much national attention, like, for example, the situation we have going on right now in remote, hard-to-get-to alaska, where a shell oil rig laden with 150,000 gallons of oil and fuel has run aground in unof the most pristine, ecologically sensitive bodies of water in the country. emergency response teams have been dropped on to th